I have a request... For the next Beta.... Can we please have a 'save option'? It keeps crashing on me, and I was really close to completing a hair style, and then it crashed and I lost it. Ideally, I'd like to save my progress, so that should it crash I can load. Ds 4.5 very rarely crashes if ever for me, but its crashed every time I used Garibaldi :(
Has anyone tackled the "crown" of the hair? I did, and made some good progress... There were several stray strands that refused to go down though, despite all nodes were laying flat. I also had trouble around the ears. some of the nodes got stuck inside them :S........... I played with the cut tool to try to clean the ears, but I wasn't able to cut the actual hair that was the trouble with the ears. Is there a way to trim individual loose strands of hair?
Found this forum, got caught up on all 27 pages, took everyone's advise and tips, and here is my first crack at the Garibaldi Hair system.....
nothing spectacular, didn't even bother with adding any lighting, spent most of my time fiddling with all the sliders and controls in the styling and tweaking sections of Garibaldi, but I'm thoroughly loving it so far! Retired hairstylist here in the real world, so the comb and cut selections are going to be my favorites, as soon as I get the hang of the rest of it......I had a problem with the paint portion as well, but used a default Genesis for this, and applied shading, morphs and pose and expression after finishing the hair. This new plugin certainly has my vote! One question.....didn't try it yet, but is it possible to isolate sections of hair and apply different colors? If not, definitely something to add for a future beta release.....
Renders look great...
Can you email me the scene and I'll have a look.
Thanks
Thanks! Will do so in the next few days - have company coming in the morning so am going a bit crazy trying to get ready. I did try different lights and that didn't help.
I have tried a BUNCH of times to render the second image, and there are ALWAYS the same 2-4 squares (depending on the method - sprial, circular, horizontal, etc) that just will NOT render. It gets to 99% and won't finish, so I can't save as a png or anything else. Haven't a clue why this is happening or if it has ANYTHING to do with the plugin or if it's my computer. It's weird that it is the same squares every time. Tried cutting out some of the hairs in that section but it doesn't matter. I can't get these squares to render ARRRGH!!
So I did some touchup in Photoshop with the clone tool, to try to hide them
Anyway, here are my 2 attempts at the hair. Really loving it!!
Hi Alisa, not sure if this will help but I do know that when I was doing displacement fur that increasing the bucket size would fix a similar issue. It may be worth trying.
I was told by someoneat the time that it was likely a bug in the renderer causing the problem which I did report on mantis. Can't remember what happened though...it's a while back now!
Has anyone tackled the "crown" of the hair? I did, and made some good progress... There were several stray strands that refused to go down though, despite all nodes were laying flat. I also had trouble around the ears. some of the nodes got stuck inside them :S........... I played with the cut tool to try to clean the ears, but I wasn't able to cut the actual hair that was the trouble with the ears. Is there a way to trim individual loose strands of hair?
I use the selection tool to select that strand, then just go crazy with the cutting tool to and draw all over that space to cut it all.
Futurebiscuit,
Maybe there can be a delete strand in the Style menu to be able to accurately get rid of the whole strand?
I have tried a BUNCH of times to render the second image, and there are ALWAYS the same 2-4 squares (depending on the method - sprial, circular, horizontal, etc) that just will NOT render. It gets to 99% and won't finish, so I can't save as a png or anything else. Haven't a clue why this is happening or if it has ANYTHING to do with the plugin or if it's my computer. It's weird that it is the same squares every time. Tried cutting out some of the hairs in that section but it doesn't matter. I can't get these squares to render ARRRGH!!
So I did some touchup in Photoshop with the clone tool, to try to hide them
Anyway, here are my 2 attempts at the hair. Really loving it!!
Hi Alisa, not sure if this will help but I do know that when I was doing displacement fur that increasing the bucket size would fix a similar issue. It may be worth trying.
I was told by someoneat the time that it was likely a bug in the renderer causing the problem which I did report on mantis. Can't remember what happened though...it's a while back now!
I have a request... For the next Beta.... Can we please have a 'save option'? It keeps crashing on me, and I was really close to completing a hair style, and then it crashed and I lost it. Ideally, I'd like to save my progress, so that should it crash I can load. Ds 4.5 very rarely crashes if ever for me, but its crashed every time I used Garibaldi :(
For saving in between I just click accept, and back in DazStudio save as scene.
As I am saving incrementally Scene01, scene02 and so on anyway, this is normal to me.
I have tried a BUNCH of times to render the second image, and there are ALWAYS the same 2-4 squares (depending on the method - sprial, circular, horizontal, etc) that just will NOT render. It gets to 99% and won't finish, so I can't save as a png or anything else. Haven't a clue why this is happening or if it has ANYTHING to do with the plugin or if it's my computer. It's weird that it is the same squares every time. Tried cutting out some of the hairs in that section but it doesn't matter. I can't get these squares to render ARRRGH!!
So I did some touchup in Photoshop with the clone tool, to try to hide them
Anyway, here are my 2 attempts at the hair. Really loving it!!
Hi Alisa, not sure if this will help but I do know that when I was doing displacement fur that increasing the bucket size would fix a similar issue. It may be worth trying.
I was told by someoneat the time that it was likely a bug in the renderer causing the problem which I did report on mantis. Can't remember what happened though...it's a while back now!
I'll try that, thanks!
I remember that...
There's a bit more to the 'problem', though...
It's got to do with not only bucket size, but also render dimensions and 'partial' buckets.
It shouldn't happen at any combination that results in 'full' buckets...so a bucket size of 16 and an image size of 1024 x 2048 would work., but a 1000 x 2000 would probably have the problem. It's most likely to occur when the displacement puts a pixel into the 'next' row/column and there isn't a full 'bucket' to handle it.
Also, if that sweater is using a displacement map, it may be the cause, not the hair. Have you tried to render on an unclothed 'defait figure/
I have tried a BUNCH of times to render the second image, and there are ALWAYS the same 2-4 squares (depending on the method - sprial, circular, horizontal, etc) that just will NOT render. It gets to 99% and won't finish, so I can't save as a png or anything else. Haven't a clue why this is happening or if it has ANYTHING to do with the plugin or if it's my computer. It's weird that it is the same squares every time. Tried cutting out some of the hairs in that section but it doesn't matter. I can't get these squares to render ARRRGH!!
So I did some touchup in Photoshop with the clone tool, to try to hide them
Anyway, here are my 2 attempts at the hair. Really loving it!!
Hi Alisa, not sure if this will help but I do know that when I was doing displacement fur that increasing the bucket size would fix a similar issue. It may be worth trying.
I was told by someoneat the time that it was likely a bug in the renderer causing the problem which I did report on mantis. Can't remember what happened though...it's a while back now!
I'll try that, thanks!
I remember that...
There's a bit more to the 'problem', though...
It's got to do with not only bucket size, but also render dimensions and 'partial' buckets.
It shouldn't happen at any combination that results in 'full' buckets...so a bucket size of 16 and an image size of 1024 x 2048 would work., but a 1000 x 2000 would probably have the problem. It's most likely to occur when the displacement puts a pixel into the 'next' row/column and there isn't a full 'bucket' to handle it.
Also, if that sweater is using a displacement map, it may be the cause, not the hair. Have you tried to render on an unclothed 'defait figure/
Interesting...I didn't realise it was due to the size of the render but that would make sense. Also that the sweater may be what's causing the issue...nice catch MJC!
I have tried a BUNCH of times to render the second image, and there are ALWAYS the same 2-4 squares (depending on the method - sprial, circular, horizontal, etc) that just will NOT render. It gets to 99% and won't finish, so I can't save as a png or anything else. Haven't a clue why this is happening or if it has ANYTHING to do with the plugin or if it's my computer. It's weird that it is the same squares every time. Tried cutting out some of the hairs in that section but it doesn't matter. I can't get these squares to render ARRRGH!!
So I did some touchup in Photoshop with the clone tool, to try to hide them
Anyway, here are my 2 attempts at the hair. Really loving it!!
Hi Alisa, not sure if this will help but I do know that when I was doing displacement fur that increasing the bucket size would fix a similar issue. It may be worth trying.
I was told by someoneat the time that it was likely a bug in the renderer causing the problem which I did report on mantis. Can't remember what happened though...it's a while back now!
I'll try that, thanks!
I remember that...
There's a bit more to the 'problem', though...
It's got to do with not only bucket size, but also render dimensions and 'partial' buckets.
It shouldn't happen at any combination that results in 'full' buckets...so a bucket size of 16 and an image size of 1024 x 2048 would work., but a 1000 x 2000 would probably have the problem. It's most likely to occur when the displacement puts a pixel into the 'next' row/column and there isn't a full 'bucket' to handle it.
Also, if that sweater is using a displacement map, it may be the cause, not the hair. Have you tried to render on an unclothed 'defait figure/
Interesting...I didn't realise it was due to the size of the render but that would make sense. Also that the sweater may be what's causing the issue...nice catch MJC!
It's more to do with the buckets being 'whole' buckets...so as long as the render size and bucket size are evenly matched, there shouldn't be a problem. 'Power of 2' sizes work well...16, 32, 64 for bucket size and at least the perpendicular to 'bucket order' size should also be power of two...256, 512, 1024, 2048,,,,also, when evenly matched there may be a slight increase in render speed (I've never tested or seen it...but I haven't looked for it, either).
what about dynamic hair with gravity and collisions?
To do hair dynamics 'well' it's a big project... arguably more complex than cloth simulation.
Garibaldi Express version 1 is all about concentrating about building a foundation of all the tools you need to style and render realistic hair in daz studio.
If you wish to animate your character then currently the hair will 'stick' to your characters surface.
The output will render stable and flicker free.
animate or pose (and manual fix everytime) with sticky hair, this isn't funny...
that's what we have years ago in the first xbox/playstation console versions.
even game engines of today almost don't use this anymore.
it's just a pitty, but will wait for hair physics/dynamics Sooooon...?
physics would make this hair tool for studio complete.
'm pretty sure some developer would come with the physics studio solution Sooooon.
physics are unthinkable today in animations.
I have a request... For the next Beta.... Can we please have a 'save option'? It keeps crashing on me, and I was really close to completing a hair style, and then it crashed and I lost it. Ideally, I'd like to save my progress, so that should it crash I can load. Ds 4.5 very rarely crashes if ever for me, but its crashed every time I used Garibaldi :(
For saving in between I just click accept, and back in DazStudio save as scene.
As I am saving incrementally Scene01, scene02 and so on anyway, this is normal to me.
Ah thank you! I didn't know you could do that with the plug in. Thanks. Saving increments is norm for me too
Garibaldi needs a graphics card that supports: hardware vertex/fragment shaders, framebuffer objects, and multisample antialiasing.
This means things are unlikely to function well with ati/amd or nvdia cards older than 5 years old.
With antialiasing off, Ge Force Go 7300 (like, seven years old?) handles the plugin fine.
mjc1016 - 28 October 2012 10:58 PM
I've gotten pretty adept at using Blender's UV mapping, so remapping the older animals, for personal use wouldn't be too difficult...but distributing remaps that would make many of them more useful would be.
I have a request... For the next Beta.... Can we please have a 'save option'? It keeps crashing on me, and I was really close to completing a hair style, and then it crashed and I lost it. Ideally, I'd like to save my progress, so that should it crash I can load...
Well, garibaldi nodes saves in the daz scene, I'm not sure why you would need a separate save function.
The plan is kind of that the final release version won't crash... it would be much appreciated if you could email me the details of what actions cause garibaldi to crash for you.
